Carolyn Barker was born in Kenya
where she took a commercial art course for three years
in Nairobi. She later went to live in Egypt for ten
years where she took up oil painting, depicting the
picturesque local people and scenery, and selling
mainly for the tourist trade. She spent six years
in Pakistan where she studied silk painting, bringing
the work back to the UK where she held several solo
exhibitions.
Since returning to this country to
settle, she has taken up watercolours and collage.
Her present enthusiasm is for painting the sea in
all its moods in both oils and watercolours. Capturing
the movement and essence of waves is almost impossible
from still photographs, and often difficult and wet
and windy when sketching outdoors, so she has resorted
to recording nature films on TV, so that it is possible
to run a seascape sequence back over and over and
thus sketch from the comfort of her sofa!
